Michael Hadzantonis develops discourses in sociology, social anthropology, and related linguistics, and has worked in global academic contexts for approximately two decades.

"This new transition model of language pedagogy impresses upon the reader the necessity of new perspectives in language education, as it accounts for culturally specific learning styles and learner social, political and cultural identities that previous work has not. It presents EFL/expanding circle learners as having agency through uniquely cultured learning styles, styles that educational stakeholders must accommodate when promulgating language pedagogies." - Katherine Chen, University of Hong Kong

• 1. Introduction 2. Identity in South Korean social, cultural and pedagogical spaces 3. Language development in a Northeast Asian context 4. Sociocultural theory 5. Strategies, styles, and mechanisms, grounding the Transition theory 6. The Transition model and theory 7. Revisiting the Transition theory